• far from failed_haiku

    It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…

  • Mostly Mamina…blogging from A to Z … E

    E is for Ear infection Oh I know, this is far from a glamorous or fun topic. But then who said that parenting is only fun or glamorous? All babies go through a series of ear infections. Especially  if they go to daycare or hang around siblings who go to school. Thats the nature of…

  • Mostly Mamina. Blogging from A to Z…D

    D is for daycare. “The first day at the daycare will be a nightmare,” they said. “Don’t worry, though. It will be worse for you than for the baby, they always adjust easily.”  And they were not far off. The first part was right. The second wasn’t. It didn’t help that when we went to…

  • Mostly Mamina. Blogging from A to Z…C

    C is for crawl. Or, one of the lessons my daughter taught me. When it was past 5 months and it looked as though crawling would be a long way coming for my daughter, I started worrying. And fretting. I got very nervous, and got into bouts of tears. It turned out all for naught.…

  • Mostly Mamina. Blogging from A to Z … B

    B is for Baby bump As I think back on the various transformations my body went through to make my baby, I struggled to remember the low points. A smile creeps through all my memories and refuses to vanish. Eclipsing all the sicknesses, the acidity attacks, the tendonitis in both my wrists, the breathlessness, the…